re: Anyone interested in throwing together a last minute keeper or redraft?Posted by GynoSandberg on 3/29/13 at 7:06 pm to GynoSandberg

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$125 buy in? Extra $25x 12 people would generate another $300 for pot.

12-16 Teams

Keeper Auction Draft ($260 budget)

FAAB ($100 budget- processes Sunday Nights)

Roto? H2H? Points? 2 divisions, champions meet for the title?

2 catcher league? MI and CI positions? how many roster spots?

Here's an idea, keeper wise:

quote:We use one keeper auction format in a number of Rotowire staff keeper leagues that I think works particularly well. After a player's initial year on your roster (called his "A year"), you can elect to keep him the following season at the same price (his "B year"). After his B year, you elect to keep him for either one more season at the same price (his "C year"), after which he must be tossed back into the auction pool the following season, or you can give the player a long-term contract. For each year you extend the contract, you must increase the player's salary by $5. By example, assume I select Gonzalez at auction for $2 in 2009, and keep him for $2 in his B year in 2010. If before the 2011 season I want to extend him through 2014, I would have to pay him a total salary of $17 ($5 x 3 + $2) in each of 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. The catch is that if I decide I don't like him and cut him prior to the end of his contract, I would lose half of his salary at auction each year until the contract expired. So there are incentives to extend long-term contracts to players who are greatly below market value, but extending a player for too long can have serious consequences if he get injured or becomes ineffective.

Best thing to would be create it and then put it out there. If you build it, people will come.

re: Anyone interested in throwing together a last minute keeper or redraft?Posted by MrWiseGuy on 3/29/13 at 8:02 pm to rondo

quote:The addition of innings pitched is a cap-tip to one of the most increasingly appreciated skills of a pitcher during the fantasy baseball era: generating outs. Remember, innings pitched is a direct calculation of outs recorded by a pitcher, innings pitched times three equaling his number of outs recorded. A pitcher has but two goals when he's on the mound: record outs and prevent runs. Why pitchers haven't received more credit historically for their innings pitched in fantasy baseball is puzzling, but as the real game evolves, pitching staffs become more specialized and efficiency of outs recorded further drives managerial strategy, individual pitchers' innings totals will greater reflect their contributions. A quarter-century ago, in 1988, 37 pitchers totaled 215 innings or more, and 20 of them had WHIPs higher than 1.20. Last season, 12 pitchers worked at least 215 innings, and only Clayton Richard (1.23) had a WHIP higher than 1.20.

Just throwing ideas out there to make it different from other leagues.